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Your Mac Keeps a Log of All Your Downloads

Some days ago, I read an interesting post of Michael McConnell about a MacOS
“feature” that keeps track of all files you downloaded, no matter which programs you used. By the way it’s
not such a brand new, as OSXDaily
already talked about it one year ago.

Introducing Download History

Whenever you don’t want to mess with Terminal, command lines and sqlite, you can use this simple utility,
called Download History. This tool just opens your quarantine log and shows its content in a more readable
format, powered with search and a command to delete the content.

For each table item, the detail box shows:

the internal ID that uniquely identifies the resource

the date/time you downloaded the file

the title of the page you visited

the URL of the downloaded file

the original URL you came from

the sender’s name and email address (whenever you received an attachment with Mail.app)

You can download the program here (built for
Mountain Lion) and browse its sources on Github.